Services Offered:
Learning and Memory:
• Cued and Contextual Conditioning
• Passive/ Active Avoidance
• T-maze
• Morris Water Maze
• Radial Maze
• Olfactory Learning & Memory
• Straight Alley
• Social Memory
• Barnes Maze
• Conditioned Fear
• Holeboard
• Place Recognition
• Fear-Potentiated Startle
• Biel Maze Depression:
• Tail Suspension
• Forced Swim
• Differential Reinforcement of Low Rate of Responding (DRL)
• Holeboard
• Intracranial Self Stimulation
• Social Interaction Fear/Anxiety:
• Light Dark Exploration
• Elevated Plus-Maze
• Ultrasonic Vocalization
• Active/Passive Avoidance
• Conditioned Fear
• Fear Potentiated Startle
• Open Field
• Vogel Conflict
Drug Abuse
• Place Conditioning
• Intracranial Self-Stimulation
• Sensitization/Withdrawal
• Intravenous Self-Administration
• Drug Discrimination
• Alcohol Consumption
• Progressive Ratio Schedules Attentional Deficits:
• Prepulse Inhibition of Startle
• Latent Inhibition
• Passive/Active Avoidance
• Serial-Reaction Time Task Activity/Motor Deficits
• Open/Field
• Circadian Wheel Running
• Rota-Rod
Urology/Urodynamics/Urogenital
• Animal models of bladder dysfunction
• Outflow obstruction
• Chemical cystitis
• Spinal cord injury
• Inflammatory cystitis
• Urodynamic testing, cystometry
• Contractility of isolated muscle segments
• Penile erection model
• Calcium imaging
• Membrane potential
• Single cell electrophysiology, patch clamp recording of ion channel activity Gastrointestinal Function
• Colonic motility
• Models of irritable bowel syndrome
• Inflammatory bowel
• Constipation General Physiological/Pharmacological Testing
• Smooth muscle function
• In vitro and in vivo studies
• Development of study protocols
• Evaluation of varying doses and routes of administration
• Collection and analysis of blood and tissue samples
• Monitoring of animal health, weight, appearance, etc.
• Monitoring of consumption of food and water
• Short-term or long-term studies
• Delivery of samples to you for analysis in your laboratory